Comments on: Tuesday’s Knitting Tip – Converting your Flat Pattern to In the Roundhttp://blog.yarn.com/tuesdays-knitting-tip-converting-your-flat-pattern-to-in-the-round/
Follow Owners Kathy & Steve Through Their Adventures in Yarn And LifeTue, 17 Feb 2015 20:24:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1By: Emmahttp://blog.yarn.com/tuesdays-knitting-tip-converting-your-flat-pattern-to-in-the-round/comment-page-1/#comment-59257
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:38:00 +0000http://blog.yarn.com/?p=10804#comment-59257Solina, another person asked the same question below, here is the response I gave her. Balancing stitches are stitches outside your repeat in a lace or cable pattern that ‘balance’ the design. For example, you might have a lace pattern that reads k2 *ssk, yo, k5, yo, rep from * until 2 sts from end of round, k2. You would remove the stitches outside the *’s and adjust your stitch count if needed. So yes, they are written into a flat knitted pattern but it depends on the pattern–a stockinette stitch pullover would likely not have balancing stitches, though ribbing is another common place to find them (ie *k2, p2; rep from * until 2 sts from end of round, k2.) Hope that clarifies!
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Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:03:00 +0000http://blog.yarn.com/?p=10804#comment-59256What are balancing stitches? And are they usually included and already written into a flat knitted pattern? …like selvage stitiches.
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Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0000http://blog.yarn.com/?p=10804#comment-59255Anita, balancing stitches are stitches outside your repeat in a lace or cable pattern that ‘balance’ the design. For example, you might have a lace pattern that reads k2 *ssk, yo, k5, yo, rep from * until 2 sts from end of round, k2. You would remove the stitches outside the *’s and adjust your stitch count if needed.
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Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:41:00 +0000http://blog.yarn.com/?p=10804#comment-59254what are balancing stitches?
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Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:20:00 +0000http://blog.yarn.com/?p=10804#comment-59253Thanks for catching my typo, Ginni! You would think I know my right from my left by now by apparently not. Post is being edited, you are correct in stating all rows would be knit right to left.
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Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:37:00 +0000http://blog.yarn.com/?p=10804#comment-59252You state that for charts, WS rows should be read left to right. This is true for knitting flat, but if you convert to knitting in the round all WS rows should be knit right to left just as though they were RS rows, shouldn’t they?
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